The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYFor a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.
More Susan B. Anthony Quotes
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How shall we ever make the world intelligent?
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Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
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Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!
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Independence is happiness.
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Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
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Better lose me than lose a state.
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Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved.
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If a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
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